Paintbrush guard



Jan. 12 1926. 1,569,736

U. FOPPIANO PAIN'I'BRUSH GUARD f Fi1ed Nov. 17, 1924 Patented Jan. 12, 1926.

UMBERTO FOPPIANO, OF VALPARAISO, CHIL.

PAINTBRUSH GUARD.

Application filed November 17, 1924. V Serial No. 750,485.

To all wlzom it -mag camera: 7

Beit known that I, IMBERTFOPPAN,

a subject of the King of Italy, resdng at Valparaso, Chile, have invented new and useful Improvements in Paintbrush Guards, of Which the following s a specification.

This inventioh relates to attachments to 01 accessories for use in connection with pant brushes, the guard operating to catch and retain any pant or other lquid runnng down the brush as fo1 instance when painting ceilngs. and the 1ike.

A11 mportant object is the provsion of a gua1d of this character whch is formed from a single piece of resilent sheet metal pressed or otherwise formed into the necessary shape and provided with means for attachment to an ordnary brush wthout the employment of auxilary securing elements of any knd whatsoever.

An addit-onal object s the provision of a devce of this charact-er which on account of retainng the pant running back down the brush may be tipped downwardly at any time in order that the accumulation of paint may flow onto the brush and replensh the supply thereon.

A11 additional object s the provision of a device of this character which Wll be simple and inexpensve in manufacture, easy to apply, positive in action, eficient and durable in service and a general improvement in the art] Vith the above and other objects and advantages in view, the nventioh consists in the details of construction to be herenafter more fully descrbed and claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawngs, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspectve view of a paint brush equipped wth my device,

Figure2 is a longitudinal secton through the brush and the attachment.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the letter A designates, broadly, a paint brush of any ordinary or preferred constructon bere represented as including a handle B upon whch is secured the brush head or brstles O held in place by a ferrule D which in the present instance is represented as consistng of wre coled about the butt end of the brush and securng the brstles to the handle. However, there s no limitation regarding the particular type of brush as the device -s adapted to be engaged upon any ordinary brush.

In carrying out the nvention I provide a guard or shield formed she1l 10 of greater diameter than the ferrule of the brush to which it s to be ap lied. \Vhile this shell is describedas cylimfiical,

as a cylindri cal t,should be, u'nclerstood that this .is the,

shape provided only in case the attachment is designed for use in connectionwith roundbrushes as it s obvious that the guard or sheld would have to be of some other shape ii the brush were rectangular or flat; In other words, the she1l must necessarily conform to the shape of the brush itself. One end of the she1l is outwardly flared as indicated at 11 while the other end is somewhat constrcted as shown at 12 and formed with an upstanding flange 18 which has its sharpened edge 14 so as to be capableof penetrating engagement between the mass of bristles at the butt end of thebrush.

The attachment s appled by slippng t over the handle B with the flared end 11- disposed toward the brush head, the device being moved along the handle until it s arranged in surrounding relaton to the ferrule D, with the sharpened edge 14 of the flange 13 engaging against the butt end of the brush head. Pressure s then appled to the devce by any desred means in order to force ths flange nto penetratng engageme1twthin the mass of brstles and t is obvious that the device Will then be held firmly in place. I

In the use, t s apparent that when painting celings or other places over the head of the operator there s a natural tendency of the paint or other liquid ,used to flow down the brush and onto the handle. HOW- ever, wth the attachment applied it s evident that this liquid, or the lke Wll accumulate within the guard or shell so that t cannot flow down onto the brush with the result and disadvantages of making the handle slippery and soiling thehands of the operator. Whenever any appreca le quantity of pant or other lquid has accumulated 'wthin the guard it may be tilted downwardly in an obvious manner so as to per-,

From the foregong descripton and a study of the drawings t Will be readly apparent that I have thus provded a simply constructed and extremely inexpensve device for the purp0se specfied whch 

